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Constant Rain
CommanderKeen
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So I purchased the Seasons EP yesterday, started new game, set starting season to Fall (when asked), went to Options and set season length to 4 weeks (so I would have time to explore all that each season has to offer).
I'm on Sim day 22 now, and every single day it has rained. It even rains when it's sunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, to be clear, it's not constantly raining, but at some point during the day or night it will rain.
Is this a bug or a feature?
P.S. No mods.
I'm on Sim day 22 now, and every single day it has rained. It even rains when it's sunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, to be clear, it's not constantly raining, but at some point during the day or night it will rain.Is this a bug or a feature?
P.S. No mods.
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Sorry, but no. In real life, it does not rain every single day.
But what's the point of spending $43.29 on an EP if you have to disable it?
The original one: Willow Creek.
It depends where you are.
No, it doesn't. Are you seriously asserting Willow Creek is based on Meghalaya? I mean, seriously? That's the story you are going to stick to?
Willow Creek gets thunderstorms, blizzards, and heatwaves.
It rains a lot in Willow Creek, Windenburg, and Brindleton Bay.
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Calm down dude! As I said it's just randomly. So it's possible that it happens.
Time to build an Ark.
Seriously though -
Try "repair game" in the Origin screen, or (if that doesn't work) try clearing out your cache files. Delete the file -
localthumbcache.package (located in: The Sims 4 folder)
NOTE: it may take a little while longer for your game to load, since it will need to regenerate a new batch of cache files.
Cache files sometimes get corrupted and need to be replaced with fresh new ones.
I didn't mean that you should permanently turn rain off forever. Just for example if it's been raining for 6 days in a row in your game and you desperately need a sunny day, you can go into the settings and turn it off for a couple days. Then enjoy the sunshine, and turn it back on after that.
It's not a bug, it's suppose to be that way so it has nothing to do with the game being broken. It's the way they did the programming that makes it too likely to have 28 days of straight rain and thunderstorm. I think it is more noticeable on the longer seasons. 28 days of pure rain for summer is not normal, it is ridiculous.
That's not really a solution to having 28 day rainfests.
But it's not actually random. That's not how programming works. There is a mathematical equation that controls the weather patterns in this game. They don't have it tuned right for the worlds especially with long seasons. While yes you can turn it off, people shouldn't have to just to play the game. I don't think it's intended for there to be rainfests in summer in BB that last for 28 days. I think it'd make more sense for the developers to take a look at the coding to see if maybe it's tuned too high or low for some worlds. That way the worlds have more balance especially for longer seasons.
It is random and it depends on where your sims live because Willow Creek gets more thunderstorms then the other worlds.
I do tend to travel to OS if it's raining in WC to long for me though(2 days in a row).
My sims love to go dance by the fireplace at the park there and I like that they do it on their own lol.
So I'm not sure about it being coded to high or low. My only issue was joggers freezing to death until I got the no temperature deaths mod.
A few years ago I was in Florida for a few weeks and it rained every single day I was there, even if it was a 5 minute sunshower
That's great, but it's not random no matter how many people who don't understand coding, programming, and math says this, it will still not ever be true. That's not how programming works and computers cannot generate true randomness in their selection. It's not physically possible. Random number generators that are so popular aren't actually random either. They can't generate true randomness and everything they do is based on mathematical equations. This is true for every single game, program, and computer coding in the entire world. This needs to be adjusted because it's not playable when you have 28 straight days of rain. No matter how many people might like that, many of us don't. It's okay to not like it and wish it to be tuned differently.
This "I have it 14 days and during summer it rained everyday except a couple of days it was hot and nice." really shouldn't happen especially in worlds like Willow Creek where it's based on southern area of the US. While they get rain, they don't typically get that many days of rain. 3 out of 14 days being sunny isn't normal for that part of the world. That's 79% chance of rain for the entire summer season. That's crazy out of the ordinary for that area of the world. If you put it into real life terms you'd be looking at most of June, July, and August being just rain. I live in a state that's literally considered one of the rainiest in the entire country even *we* don't get that much rain. So it's not even realistic at all. You have to understand proportions are going to be off because sims don't have 3-4 months per season like we do in real life, but if you turn it into a percentage that's where it really shows how unrealistic and odd it is.